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RE: A Modest Proposal
You did spend a lot of time in this discussion which I surely appreciate. I have been open about admitting my mistakes and apologizing for what might have been insulting. Still, for a snowflake-flamer, you seem to be too easily offended in this case.
Thanks for the time and effort either way.
ooops...my mistake.
I apologize.
I thought you were someone else..
I spent a LOT of time talking about that subject with (x)..and like I wrongly accused you of...he responded with logical falasies, and insult...
It wasn't you...once more I apologize.
You did point out logical fallacies in some of my comments in the education discussion and I did take them to heart and I think you were insulted by some of my US and Texas comments. I hope I'm not that other guy after all as I would like to continue this type of discussion with people holding different opinions from mine as I find them the most enriching.
I plead confusion..
us old farts can do that.
do you live in honduras?
Confusion can happen, especially with profiles that haven't added an avatar yet, so that's more than understandable.
I don't live in Honduras, but I hope we'll not start a guessing game as I currently prefer to keep my location private.
up to you..I don't care where you live as long as you don't start a pissing contest about Texas or The US of A....if you do then it's 'put up or shut up'...you have to tell me how YOUR country is doing better.
note...if texas was a country...it'd be the 12th largest GNP in the world.
you also might consider this.
and..this
so...if you want to criticize...(your right)...show how you can do better...
note: Texas has a larger GNP than Russia.
As I mentioned before, I don't think I have to live in any kind of a country to point something out, be it about the US, Texas, Honduras or Russia. Where I'm from, where I live now or where I have lived before is absolutely besides the point and I surely don't want any part in any my-country-vs-your-country type of discussions and pointless pissing contests.
When I criticize a state and their educational policies, this has little or nothing to do with the state's GDP or the people in it personally, so I see the data you've mentioned above as irrelevant to this specific discussion. Isn't talking about my country a type of an ad hominem here anyway?
Pointing out a better option when criticizing something is a good policy though and it's fair that you would expect something like that. In the case of our discussion tough, I think I actually did that exactly in the exact same comment I mentioned Texas in. I might have not used the most respectful wording hence my apologies, but I did point out a number of countries that are doing a better job with education than both Texas and the US. Does it really matter if I live in one or not? Logic dictates that it doesn't, the rest is emotion and should be recognized as such.
I will try to be more mindful of people's patriotic feelings, but I can't recognize them as logical in this type of context. For instance, you personally seem to be very unhappy with government in general, but got annoyed when I criticized "your" government while being an "outsider".
Still, I realize that I might have misread an important nuance in your stance here and I'd like to check if that is the case. You might be drawing a big distinction between the federal government and the state government in the state of Texas and have very different attitudes towards. Is that the case?
Also, please don't think that the fact that I'm criticizing something about the US stops me from recognizing other things that make it great. For instance, I believe the US is one of the greatest countries to live in for many people and the constant immigration interest from all over the world is strong evidence for that. I personally put even more value on this metric (even if it's more difficult to measure) than GDP.
In regard to your question
WHY is it impossible for a monopoly to exist in a free market.
Well...I guess it's technically possible...if the monopoly watched it's P's and Q's and did everything in it's power that was possible to bring the highest quality and cheapest cost of it's service or product to the market. As long as it did that then competetion would be a problem...once it did othewise...all bets are off.
Supply and demand don't ya know? and other market factors....
It's happened before...read about Standard Oil and the Great Northern RailRoad...
they were pretty much monoplies...and their customers LOVED IT...which is why their competitors didn't
Technically possible is often all it takes for things to go wrong sooner or later. I agree the market has a lot of ways to fix that, especially for non-finite resources and services. I personally think roads in particular are in much higher danger of becoming monopolized in a way that would not be beneficial to the customer because of their geographical constraints.
I wonder how do you see the problem of all alternate routes between two destinations being owned by the same corrupt monopolist and how do you expect the free market to solve that.
Still, let me dig deeper into your examples and the video.
I have a quarter century of experience with alternate routes...
Meaning it's very unlikely for the scenario I'm suggesting to have a possibility of arising?
about as likely as hilliary honestly winning five coin tosses in a row...yup..